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Re: Keybase and Stellar is live for everyone

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Post by malgorithms »

filleokus wrote: post #7

If I have a good understanding of how the bitcoin protocol works, and is well versed in cryptography, does anyone have a tip on what to read to understand about the Stellar protocol? Just some quick Googling on my phone led me down cryptobro low quality content, unsurprisingly. EDIT: And also, this implementation looks really neat, congrats! It made me excited about crypto currency again!

David Mazières (designer of the protocol) has given a number of talks. Here's a good video of his talk at Google, and I believe it's the one I watched a couple years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmwnhZmEZjc

Re: Keybase and Stellar is live for everyone

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Post by andrewstuart »

I'm not convinced that association with cryptocurrency does much to give the appearance of credibility, trustworthiness and stability to keybase.io

I associate crypto with shonk, which puts keybase.io in the "this is a crypto thing? Hmmm.... shonky." category.

I guess it depends on what the corporate goals of keybase.io are - I think it was identity management or something rather being a crypto player.

edit: I should qualify that I've always seen and continue to see keybase.io as being a really reputable and stable company and not shonky. I guess I was a bit jaded by being flooded with crypto ads on every social media platform 12 months ago or so.

Re: Keybase and Stellar is live for everyone

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Post by StavrosK »

andrewstuart wrote: post #12

I'm not convinced that association with cryptocurrency does much to give the appearance of credibility, trustworthiness and stability to keybase.io I associate crypto with shonk, which puts keybase.io in the "this is a crypto thing? Hmmm.... shonky." category. I guess it depends on what the corporate goals of keybase.io are - I think it was identity management or something rather being a crypto player. edit: I should…

Sure, but unless cryptocurrency makes it into trustworthy software with legitimate uses instead of just speculation, it's always going to remain dodgy.

I really wish all the speculators just went away.

Re: Keybase and Stellar is live for everyone

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Post by xur17 »

andrewstuart wrote: post #12

I'm not convinced that association with cryptocurrency does much to give the appearance of credibility, trustworthiness and stability to keybase.io I associate crypto with shonk, which puts keybase.io in the "this is a crypto thing? Hmmm.... shonky." category. I guess it depends on what the corporate goals of keybase.io are - I think it was identity management or something rather being a crypto player. edit: I should…

> I associate crypto with shonk, which puts keybase.io in the "this is a crypto thing? Hmmm.... shonky." category.

I'm sorry to hear that. There is a lot of scammy behavior in the space, but there is also a lot of interesting work going on. It just turns out that the shitty people speak the loudest, so they're the ones you hear about, rather than all of the people heads down working hard on interesting problems.

I don't think it is intellectually honest to dismiss the entire space as a scam due to the bad actors.

Re: Keybase and Stellar is live for everyone

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Post by feanaro »

andrewstuart wrote: post #12

I'm not convinced that association with cryptocurrency does much to give the appearance of credibility, trustworthiness and stability to keybase.io I associate crypto with shonk, which puts keybase.io in the "this is a crypto thing? Hmmm.... shonky." category. I guess it depends on what the corporate goals of keybase.io are - I think it was identity management or something rather being a crypto player. edit: I should…

> I associate crypto with shonk, which puts keybase.io in the "this is a crypto thing? Hmmm.... shonky." category.

This is unnecessary bias, though. If you look past the drama, cryptocurrency is a powerful and useful invention.

Re: Keybase and Stellar is live for everyone

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Post by electic »

modeless wrote: post #6
malgorithms wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CoinMarketCap's paid API. We're open to considering other data sources.

I would suggest OpenMarketCap instead. CoinMarketCap is known to include exchanges that fake their volume and I wouldn't be surprised if their price data is somewhat manipulated too. https://openmarketcap.com/exchanges/faq

Correct. The price especially is wrong on CMC when there is high volume events.

I also invite the OP to check out Blockmodo's API. We deliver this data to developers and institutional investors.

https://blockmodo.com/docs/api

We stream everything which includes the price, trades, news, social media and community posts, and code checkins.

On the price side, we have two channels. We have a stream channel and a ticker channel. The stream channel derives the price of tokens by looking at raw trades from a select set of exchanges which have been vettted.

We are based in SF and happy to help at no charge! Drop us a note.

Re: Keybase and Stellar is live for everyone

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Post by api »

xur17 wrote: post #15
andrewstuart wrote: post #12

I'm not convinced that association with cryptocurrency does much to give the appearance of credibility, trustworthiness and stability to keybase.io I associate crypto with shonk, which puts keybase.io in the "this is a crypto thing? Hmmm.... shonky." category. I guess it depends on what the corporate goals of keybase.io are - I think it was identity management or something rather being a crypto player. edit: I should…

> I associate crypto with shonk, which puts keybase.io in the "this is a crypto thing? Hmmm.... shonky." category. I'm sorry to hear that. There is a lot of scammy behavior in the space, but there is also a lot of interesting work going on. It just turns out that the shitty people speak the loudest, so they're the ones you hear about, rather than all of the people heads down working hard on interesting problems. I do…

The defense is to point out some genuinely useful work going on in the space that doesn't revolve around speculation.
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